Climate change and health toolkit
National adaptation strategies and plans
The outcomes from Vulnerability and Adaptation assessments provide information for decision makers to design their national strategies and the health component of their national adaptation plans.
In addition to information related to the main health impacts of climate change and adaptation options, strategies should include relevant topics such as how to best engage other health determining sectors and how to best engage other health determining sectors and how to build the institutional, organizational and technical capacity to effectively build the resilience of the health systems.
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Quality criteria for health national adaptation plans
The Quality Criteria for Health National Adaptation Plans (HNAPs) presents examples of good practice in HNAP development to assist countries in developing...
This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds...
This guidance document is designed to ensure that the process of iteratively managing the health risks of climate change is integrated into the overall...
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Quality criteria for health national adaptation plans
The Quality Criteria for Health National Adaptation Plans (HNAPs) presents examples of good practice in HNAP development to assist countries in developing...
Countries can strengthen their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement by developing health-inclusive and health-promoting climate...
This report provides a vital snapshot of the overall progress that governments have made in the field of health and climate change to date, as well as...
Climate change and health in small island developing States — Regional Plan of Action for SIDS in the...
This Plan of Action was developed during the Third Global Conference on Health and Climate Change which was organized as a regionally dispersed conference...
COP24 special report: health and climate change
This report is a contribution from the public health community to support the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds...
This guidance document is designed to ensure that the process of iteratively managing the health risks of climate change is integrated into the overall...
This publication presents the results of a seven-country initiative of the WHO Regional Office for Europe aimed to protect health from climate change through...
Atlas of Health and Climate
The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities. It provides...
Heat-health action plans: guidance
Climate change is leading to an increase in extreme weather events, including heat-waves. Recent heat-waves in the WHO European Region have led to a rise...